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245 00 a| Desert peoples :b| archaeological perspectives /c| edited by Peter Veth, Mike Smith, Peter Hiscock.;

260 a| Malden, MA :b| Blackwell Pub.,c| 2005.;

300 a| x, 308 pages :b| illustrations, maps ;c| 26 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and indexes.;

505 0 a| Global deserts in perspective / Mike Smith, Peter Veth, Peter Hiscock and Lynley A. Wallis -- Theoretical shifts in the anthropology of desert hunter-gatherers / Thomas Widlok -- Pleistocene settlement of deserts from an Australian perspective / Peter Hiscock and Lynley A. Wallis -- Arid paradises of dangerous landscapes : a review of explanations for paleolithic-assemblage change in arid Australia and Africa / Peter Hiscock and Sue O'Connor -- Evolutionary and ecological understandings of the economics of desert societies : comparing the Great Basin USA and the Australian deserts / Douglas W. Bird and Rebecca Bliege Bird -- Cycles of aridity and human mobility : risk minimization amongst Late Pleistocene foragers of the Western Desert, Australia / Peter Veth -- Archaic faces to head-dresses : the changing role of rock art across the arid zone / Jo McDonald -- The archaeology of the Patagonia deserts : hunter-gatherers in a cold desert / Luis Alberto Borrero -- Perspectives on later Stone Age hunter-gatherer archaeology in arid southern Africa / Anne Thackeray -- Long term transitions in hunter-gatherers of coastal northwest Australia / Kathryn Przywolnik -- Hunter-gatherers and herders of the Kalahari during the Late Holocene / Karim Sadr -- Desert archaeology, linguistic stratigraphy, and the spread of the western desert language / Mike Smith -- People of the coastal Atacama Desert : living between sand dunes and waves of the Pacific Ocean / Calogera M. Santoro, Bernardo T. Arriaza, Vivien G. Standen, and Pablo A. Marquet -- Desert solitude : the evolution of ideologies amongst pastoralists and hunter-gatherers in arid North Africa / Andrew B. Smith -- Hunter-gatherer interactions with sheep and cattle pastoralists from the Australian arid zone / Alistair Paterson -- Conclusion : major themes and future research directions / Peter Veth.;

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Desert peoples : archaeological perspectives / edited by Peter Veth, Mike Smith, Peter Hiscock.

Other author	Veth, Peter Marius.
Other author	Smith, Mike, 1955-
Other author	Hiscock, Peter, 1957-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
Description	x, 308 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subjects	Desert people. Archaeology.

Contents	Global deserts in perspective / Mike Smith, Peter Veth, Peter Hiscock and Lynley A. Wallis -- Theoretical shifts in the anthropology of desert hunter-gatherers / Thomas Widlok -- Pleistocene settlement of deserts from an Australian perspective / Peter Hiscock and Lynley A. Wallis -- Arid paradises of dangerous landscapes : a review of explanations for paleolithic-assemblage change in arid Australia and Africa / Peter Hiscock and Sue O'Connor -- Evolutionary and ecological understandings of the economics of desert societies : comparing the Great Basin USA and the Australian deserts / Douglas W. Bird and Rebecca Bliege Bird -- Cycles of aridity and human mobility : risk minimization amongst Late Pleistocene foragers of the Western Desert, Australia / Peter Veth -- Archaic faces to head-dresses : the changing role of rock art across the arid zone / Jo McDonald -- The archaeology of the Patagonia deserts : hunter-gatherers in a cold desert / Luis Alberto Borrero -- Perspectives on later Stone Age hunter-gatherer archaeology in arid southern Africa / Anne Thackeray -- Long term transitions in hunter-gatherers of coastal northwest Australia / Kathryn Przywolnik -- Hunter-gatherers and herders of the Kalahari during the Late Holocene / Karim Sadr -- Desert archaeology, linguistic stratigraphy, and the spread of the western desert language / Mike Smith -- People of the coastal Atacama Desert : living between sand dunes and waves of the Pacific Ocean / Calogera M. Santoro, Bernardo T. Arriaza, Vivien G. Standen, and Pablo A. Marquet -- Desert solitude : the evolution of ideologies amongst pastoralists and hunter-gatherers in arid North Africa / Andrew B. Smith -- Hunter-gatherer interactions with sheep and cattle pastoralists from the Australian arid zone / Alistair Paterson -- Conclusion : major themes and future research directions / Peter Veth.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN	2004014009
ISBN	1405100907 (alk. paper)
ISBN	1405100915 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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